
Migration Museum
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🌍 Exploring how migration has shaped who we are – as individuals and as nations. 🕰️ Open Thurs–Sat, 11am–5.30pm
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Join us at Migration Museum in Lewisham on 2 Nov for a free all-day event exploring family histories and migration, presented by The National Archives & Migration Museum Drop in to view exhibits and ask questions. Sign up for free talks and workshops here: migrationmuseum.org/event/roots-an…



📢 Just a few days until our free all-day event exploring family histories and migration! Featured Talks: 🎤 Paul Crooks, a pioneer in African Caribbean genealogy, will share his journey tracing his family history from London to West Africa and a Jamaican sugar plantation.


📢 Last chance to book your FREE tickets for our all-day family history event at Migration Museum, in partnership with the National Archives! Join us on Sat, 2 Nov, from 11 AM to 4:30 PM to explore your ancestry with experts from The National Archives, Lewisham Heritage, and more. 🌟 Don’t


Thrilled we had cross party support for the London Liberal Democrats motion today. The Migration Museum carries out important work to promote integration, representation, understanding and respect across London and the UK. Migration Museum Justine Simons OBE Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

We're thrilled that London Assembly has agreed a motion calling for more support for Migration Museum. We're immensely grateful to our Distinguished Friend Hina Bokhari OBE AM 🔶 for proposing the motion and to her fellow AMs who backed it. We look forward to working with

Our friends British Future are hiring for two great new roles: -Media & Comms Officer -Parliamentary & Public Affairs Manager 👇See below for more details and how to apply

"We should have a much more compassionate, inclusive and celebratory approach to migration." Huge pleasure to champion the Migration Museum. 🌎


Thank you for speaking so warmly and eloquently about our plans for a permanent home Debbie Weekes-Bernard. And thank you to everyone who came and for your support on the exciting next step of our journey towards creating Britain's missing musuem. #MigrationMuseum #AllOurStories

Great to hear Angela Hui 許紫恩 discussing her Chinese Takeaway exhibit, part of our All Our Stories exhibition Lewisham Shopping, on Start the Week BBC Radio 4 this morning! In conversation with historian Annie Gray and urban planner Vicky Payne on the future of high streets.


Our students visited the Migration Museum in preparation for their collaboration with the museum's "Behind Our Accent" exhibition. Students have shared their personal migration stories in a book written by our students - so inspiring - well done! 👏


Today is #InternationalMigrantsDay, which raises awareness of the challenges and difficulties of international migration. See the Migration Museum's Resource Bank for materials to mark the day with your students. buff.ly/48Heqx6


Our friends at British Library Learning & Historical Assoc are running a free online CPD on February 13! Join Dr Yasmin Khan Yasmin Cordery Khan, Justice 2 History, and Head of History Emma McKenna for fresh ideas and resources on South Asian migration to Britain in the 19th century. Book your place:


Closing soon - All Our Stories: Migration and the Making of Britain Migration Museum and Charlotte Johnson-Wahl: What It Felt Like Bethlem Museum of the Mind, both in my #TopPicks for Londonist >> londonist.com/london/museums… #LondonArtCritic #LondonExhibitions


Finally visited Migration Museum in its final week in Lewisham - should have got my act together sooner as it’s fantastic, creative, engaging, open & really inspiring. Hope it finds a temporary home & looking forward to seeing it in its permanent home in Aldgate in 2027.


We’re thrilled that The Portal Trust has become an inaugural donor of our new permanent home. We’re immensely grateful and looking forward to working with our new neighbours in the City of London to support the creation of a Migration Museum for Britain and our award-winning